Unanet has agreed to acquire GovPro AI, an artificial intelligence writing platform, to streamline request for proposal, or RFP, response processes throughout the government contracting industry. Using GovPro AI’s proposal platform, Unanet aims to minimize the financial and logistical demands of replying to complicated RFPs, Unanet announced Friday. According to industry authorities, the price tag of responding to one RFP can be between $50,000 and $100,000. Craig Halliday, CEO of Unanet and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said, “Unanet’s commitment is to empower our customers’ business success with modern, purpose-built technology and people-centric service.” Unanet to Leverage GovPro AI’s Proposal Platform GovPro AI’s platform reportedly offers
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Shawn Lennon Says DLA Eyeing AI to Achieve Clean Audit Opinion
Shawn Lennon, deputy chief financial officer at the Defense Logistics Agency, said the agency is exploring ways to harness artificial intelligence to advance its efforts to achieve a clean financial audit. He noted that DLA Finance has had success with bots, robotic process automation and other technologies and it plans to build on that with AI tools. Using AI to Detect Errors, Generate Insights According to Lennon, DLA aims to collect data from its business systems and use AI to help detect errors, glean insights and propose measures to improve data quality and financial reporting. “We’re also looking at using AI to
GAO Releases Report on Review of DOE Acquisition Planning
Some offices within the Department of Energy as well as the National Nuclear Security Administration do not always seem to review lessons learned from previous acquisitions when planning new ones, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office. Benefits of Applying Lessons Learned Lessons learned is one of the 10 acquisition planning practices that GAO said Thursday it had assessed during its review of 20 DOE contracts from fiscal years 2017 through 2022. According to GAO, reviewing and using knowledge gained from prior contracts, as well as enacting a process that would put those lessons into effect, would
Sierra Lobo Awarded NASA Stennis Test Operations Contract
Sierra Lobo has secured a three-year NASA contract to provide test operations support and technical system maintenance services for the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The space agency said Thursday the $47 million NASA Stennis Test Operations Contract has a one-year base term, which is set to kick off on July 1, 2025, and two option years. The fixed-price contract includes technical systems maintenance and operations support for high-pressure gas, high-pressure industrial water and cryogenic propellant storage support areas. The vendor will also provide fabrication, machining, welding and component processing capabilities under the contract. Previously Awarded
Army Expands Project Athena With #CalibrateAI
The U.S. Army is integrating #CalibrateAI into Project Athena, an initiative focused on leveraging commercially available generative artificial intelligence tools. The Army said Tuesday the #CalibrateAI initiative, overseen by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering and Software, under the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, aims to enhance military operations through the use of generative AI. What Is Project Athena? The Project Athena initiative, spearheaded by the Army chief information officer and the Office of Enterprise Management, examines generative AI tools and platforms to determine their features, use cases and costs, as well as
VA Seeks Solution to Modernize Human Capital Management Functions
The Department of Veterans Affairs is requesting information on qualified vendors that can support efforts to modernize the agency’s human capital management capabilities. Through this market research, VA is looking to procure subscription licenses for a cloud-based platform solution that can be continuously modernized and enhanced to advance the department’s goal of automating its HCM functions, according to a Wednesday notice on SAM.gov. Meeting Baseline HR Requirements The government requires an advanced solution that can satisfy the baseline human resources requirements, keep pace with evolving business operational demands and improve the overall user experience. The HCM technology must also seamlessly
GlobalFoundries Wins $1.5B for Semiconductor Facilities
The U.S. Department of Commerce has selected GlobalFoundries to receive up to $1.5 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS Incentives Program’s Funding Opportunity for Commercial Fabrication Facilities intended to bolster the semiconductor supply chain by supporting multiple of the company’s sites across the northeast U.S. The National Institute of Standards and Technology said Wednesday the CHIPS investment is intended to boost U.S. competitiveness in the semiconductor industry by enhancing GF’s manufacturing facilities in New York and Vermont. CHIPS Investment Meant to Boost Production, Employment Rate The $1.5 billion fund will be included in GF’s planned $13 billion investment over
CBO Projects 11% Increase in Defense Costs by 2039
The Congressional Budget Office analyzed the Department of Defense’s plans between 2025 and 2029 as outlined in the 2025 Future Years Defense Program, or FYDP, and projected that defense costs under such plans would increase by 11 percent to $965 billion in 2039. According to a CBO report published Wednesday, 64 percent of the cost increase would occur in operation and support. Of the $99 billion increase in annual costs that CBO projects over a decade starting 2029, 32 percent would be for weapon systems development and procurement and 4 percent would be for infrastructure. According to the 2025 FYDP,
CISA Red Team Exercise Offers Ways to Tighten Infrastructure Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an advisory on learnings from a red team cyberattack exercise and recommendations on countermeasures against the malicious activities simulated in the assessment. The exercise was conducted upon the request of a critical infrastructure organization, which also coordinated the release of the assessment, CISA said Thursday. Titled “Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a U.S. Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization,” the 36-page advisory reported that the assessed organization lacked sufficient technical controls for preventing and detecting malicious activity. It was heavily dependent on host-based endpoint detection and response and had
US Warns Against Russia-Backed Sabotage Attacks in Europe
Joint security guidance from various U.S. agencies warned American companies about Russia’s recruitment of criminals to launch sabotage attacks against Europe’s defense industrial base, military installations, logistics facilities and public utilities to undermine allied support for Ukraine. Authored by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, the FBI and several Department of Defense agencies, the advisory published on Thursday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence encouraged U.S. companies, particularly those supporting entities involved in the Ukraine conflict or other ongoing geopolitical conflicts, to remain vigilant and enhance their security efforts to defend against potential Russian sabotage activity. Attacks